Topic 3 AP Exam Practice
Multiple-Choice Questions
Questions 1 to 3 refer to the image below.
1. Which of the following best describes the point of view of the creator of the image?
- (A) Scientists have the primary responsibility to analyze global environmental issues.
- (B) People from around the world need to work together to protect the earth from environmental damage.
- (C) The impacts of climate change cannot be reversed by human action.
- (D) People competing for scare resources are causing conflicts among countries.
2. Which of the following best explains the relationship of developed and developing countries in regard to climate change?
- (A) Developing countries in Africa emit more greenhouse gases per person than developed countries because they are more agriculural.
- (B) Developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change than developed countries because they have fewer resources to fight it.
- (C) Developing countries have more influence in international affairs to combat climate change than developing countries have.
- (D) Developing and developed countries have agreed to allow China and the United States to continue emissions at current levels.
3. Which of the following developments accelerated global awareness of climate change in the late 20th century?
- (A) The increasing population of developing countries
- (B) The use of pesticides during the Green Revolution
- (C) The development of nuclear power plants to produce electricity
- (D) The growth of the information sector of the global economy
Short-Answer Questions
1. Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.
Excerpts from key articles of the Paris Agreement are set out below:
• “Long-term temperature goal (Art. 2) – The Paris Agreement, in seeking to strengthen the global response to climate change, reaffirms the goal of limiting global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees.”
• Global peaking (Art. 4) – . . . Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) as soon as possible, recognizing peaking will take longer for developing country Parties, so as to achieve a balance between . . . emissions . . . and removals . . . in the second half of the century.
• Sinks and reservoirs (Art. 5) – The Paris Agreement also encourages Parties to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of GHGs . . . including forests.
• Climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation, and public access to information (Art. 12) is also to be enhanced under the Agreement.”
United Nations, Paris Agreement, December 2015
2. Answer all parts of the question that follows.